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Archive for June, 2010

Why you should choose sex, not the Internet

30 Jun 2010

However, then I shook off this conception in favor of a simple explanation: perhaps it’s the men these women are choosing (not) to have sex with. The slightly more than 50 percent who could not give up on, as Richard Nixon would put it, fornication, were possibly either fortunate to be in a rare, healthy [...]

For YouTube videos, a ‘fair use’ boost

28 Jun 2010

A Viacom spokesman said Thursday that the company has sent 350,000 take-down notices to YouTube. Each of the offending videos is first reviewed by Viacom staff before the notices are sent. The media power has acknowledged making mistakes but less than 1 percent of the time.

Fogel agreed and the wrote: “The unnecessary removal of [...]

Alienware Game PCs need more than faster chips

23 Jun 2010

“I think that would make sense now,” Diana said emphatically.
Much of the software in the PC world is still 32-bit, including most copies of Windows XP and Vista. In fact, Diana said Alienware doesn’t offer 64-bit operating systems because “we don’t feel comfortable shipping a system to a customer with the 64-bit driver support [...]

How the Web changed my content consumption

22 Jun 2010

But media technology has changed and so has my consumption of it. The Web now consumes my life. How much? The log I’ve kept over the past few weeks shows it, in minute-by-minute detail.

There was a time when I had at least two television series to watch each night. Today, I watch just one show [...]

Yahoo lets users opt out of targeted advertising

18 Jun 2010

In response to a Congressional inquiry about targeted advertising, Yahoo announced Friday that consumers will be able to opt out of customized advertising on Yahoo.com.

By the end of August, users should be able to access Yahoo’s opt-out option at the Yahoo privacy center, which is linked on most Yahoo network pages. The opt-out will also [...]

MTV’s ‘Soundtrack’ jumps on stage

16 Jun 2010

'The Hills': Now telling you what you want to listen to.
But MTV also hopes that Soundtrack, which will be worked into the main MTV.com site soon, will become an important promotional hub. There’s a ranking of the top songs and artists–and it’s a lot more obscure than iTunes or MTV’s own TRL charts–and indie bands [...]

Securing the cloud for enterprise adoption

04 Jun 2010

When it comes to cloud computing, Zhen said, enterprises need
transparency: the ability to view log reports showing who has accessed
what data in the cloud, and when.

One obvious answer comes to mind: security.

In a May 2008 report, Merrill Lynch predicted that by 2012, the annual
global market for cloud computing will surge to $95 billion. [...]